Esoterica Cream Quotes & Sayings

From deep in the tradition, from The Cloud of Unknowing, a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk: "You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God." The words slap. Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God. But the monk's words console, too. For, of time and person, it seems that scraps are all I have to bring forward. That my ways of coming to God these days are all scraps. — Lauren F. Winner

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management. — Ben Hogan

There were no chambers now along the passageway and consequently no lights. There was a glow up ahead, however - fitful and cold, but bright enough to illuminate both the ground she stumbled over, which was bare earth, and the silvery frost on the walls. — Clive Barker

I sat across the table from him and watched as he popped open the lid. "I gather you like ice cream?" An eyebrow twitched comically. "Snow demon." He shrugged. — Pippa DaCosta

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun. — Elliott Smith

I must think of something foolproof for a fool. — Aristophanes

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. — Menander

We only hear what we listen for. — John Cage

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more. — Alain Ducasse

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off. — Murray Kempton

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations. — Agatha Christie

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance. — Casey Kasem